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Verdienen Fußballspieler was sie verdienen?
Lehmann, Erik - In: Sportveranstaltungen zwischen Liga- und …, (pp. 97-121). 2000
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The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
Baker, Michael; Cornelson, Kirsten - 2021
We revisit the US evidence of the association of height with socioeconomic status. We document non linear height profiles that are different for males and females. For males the profile is a spline function with a single node at mean height. Below mean height there is a sharply positive slope...
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The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
Baker, Michael - 2019
We present new evidence of the correlation of height with important socioeconomic outcomes, finding the height profile is significantly non linear at mean height, especially for males. We trace this non linearity back to the adult height profiles of cognitive scores from the teenage and...
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The tall and the short of the returns to height
Baker, Michael; Cornelson, Kirsten - 2019
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - In: Journal of political economy 128 (2020) 6, pp. 2123-2187
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
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Trade, human capital, and income risk
Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - 2021
In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …
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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States
Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017
underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … transmission channels along the income distribution in the United States indicate that the endowment effect slightly decreases in …
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